Magick Matters

“Maurice Nicoll: Forgotten Teacher of the Fourth Way” by Gary Lachman

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "A biography of the influential teacher of the Fourth Way • Traces the life of Maurice Nicoll, who left a successful career as a psychiatrist in 1922 to study with G.I. Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky • Explores newly uncovered diaries from Nicoll, revealing his mystical sex practices, his shadow self, and new understandings of his unorthodox teachings • Examines the influence of psychiatrist Carl Jung and Swedish scientist and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg on Nicoll’s work In 1922, Maurice Nicoll (1884-1953) abandoned his successful London psychiatry practice and his direct studies with Carl Jung to move his family just outside of Paris to the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, a center recently opened by philosopher, mystic,...>>

“The Book of Juju: Africana Spirituality for Healing, Liberation, and Self-Discovery” by Juju Bae

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "In order to know where you're going, you must know where you've been. In her debut book, podcaster, priestess, and all-around badass witch Juju Bae teaches you how to connect with your ancestors, as well as how to create a spiritual practice that respectfully incorporates their wisdom while remaining uniquely yours. It’s also the story of the necessity and vitality of Black spirituality, from the Yoruba pantheon of Ifa to the freedom-fighting origins of Black American Hoodoo. You will learn: History: An overview of Africana Spirituality in the United States and beyond, including information on ATRs (African Traditional Religions) like Ifa and ADRs (African Diasporan/Derived Religions) such as Hoodoo. ...>>

“Chakras for Beginners: The Beginner’s Guide to Balancing, Healing, and Unblocking Your Chakras for Health and Positive Energy” by Athena Perrakis

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Discover the chakras, the power centers connecting your physical body and the world of energy and explore the basics of energy healing. Your chakras are the power centers that translate between the seen world of the physical body and the unseen world of energy. These powerful portals hold the key to our well-being. By tapping into the power of our chakras, we can live healthier, balanced, and more abundant lives. Written by Athena Perrakis, leading metaphysical teacher and creator of the world’s largest online metaphysical resource website, SageGoddess.com, this beginner’s guide: Addresses the nine major chakras we can tap into to balance, heal, and manifest. Teaches...>>

“The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions” edited by Corinne Bonnet

"From Greece to Palmyra, Tyre or Babylon, the names of the gods, like "Thundering Zeus", "Three-faced Moon", "Baal of the Force" or the enigmatic YHWH, reveal their history, family ties, fields of competence and capacity for action. Shared or specific, these names bring to light networks of gods: the Saviour gods, the Ancestral gods, the gods of a city or a family. Names tell stories about the relationship between men and gods, gods and places, places and cultures and so on. They show how gods travel and spread, how they appear and disappear, how they participate in the political, social, intellectual history of each community. Through the study of divine names, the twelve chapters...>>

“The Elemental Equilibrium: Notes on The Foundation of Magical Adepthood” by Virgil

"Establishing an elemental equilibrium — an inner state in which the elements constituting one’s soul and spirit have been balanced and purified — has long been considered an essential prerequisite for advanced magical work. The master alchemists of the Middle Ages hinted at the importance of this state in their cryptic texts and emblems. The French magician Eliphas Levi considered this state to be the secret to controlling the astral light. Professor Gregory Ottonovich Mёbes taught that this state is the key to acquiring divine authority. Throughout history, numerous occultists have become emotionally unbalanced and mentally deranged because they failed to establish this state within themselves before coming into contact with potent spiritual forces....>>